Word: hack
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...feel a little uncomfortable,” says Glenn. “It’s supposed to push you out and pull you in.” The middle ground Hermenaut is seeking lies between the domain of “the serious scholar and the freelance hack journalist.” If Hermenaut is proud of its unusual approach to philosophical and cultural discourse, that stems partly from its distaste for how ideas are discussed in a jargon filled academy where the big picture sometimes gets lost. “Most of us are refugees from grad school...
...criminologist, Hollywood can do with a little variety. Let us just hope he does not feel the need to reprise any of these I-am-an-intelligent-policeman roles in the near future, especially roles that require him to run around answering cell phones in garbage cans at some hack crook's command...
...poster boy of Filipino hackerdom is Onel de Guzman, the 23-year-old Manila resident blamed for allegedly unleashing last year's Love Bug virus, which wiped out files and paralyzed Internet access from Pakistan to the Pentagon. De Guzman was unemployed: he learned to hack partly by sneaking into other people's accounts to access the Internet, which he couldn't otherwise afford. That's typical: hackers in the Philippines tend to be overtrained, underutilized minds trying to satisfy their creative yearnings but kept from doing so by a variety of factors. Besides the stinging poverty that has translated...
...Secret Service agents say they've uncovered the biggest e-commerce extortion scheme ever, involving more than one million credit card numbers stolen by hackers working with Russian and Ukrainian organized crime. Agents say the mobsters hack e-commerce sites, download customers' personal information and credit card numbers, then call victim companies to extort protection money. They threaten to post the purloined personal information and card numbers on the Internet - angering current customers and scaring off prospective ones - if the companies don't hire them as "security consultants...
...issues - feature beloved objects that have come to life. The titular sock-monkey, named Uncle Gabby, and Mr. Crow, a cloth crow with button eyes, get into adventures by innocently imitating the adult world. The stories read like original Grimm's fairy tales - the ones where Cinderella's stepsisters hack away at their feet with an ax so they will fit the glass slipper. They have a romantic, quaint naïveté mixed with moments of modern existential horror...